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Keeping active: maintenance of physical activity after exercise programs for older adults (2018)
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Kendrick, D., Orton, E., Lafond, N., Audsley, S., Maula, A., Morris, R., …Iliffe, S. (2018). Keeping active: maintenance of physical activity after exercise programs for older adults. Public Health, 164, 118-127. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.puhe.2018.08.003

Objectives: To explore factors associated with maintenance of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) in community-dwelling adults aged ?65 years after completing a 24-week exercise programme. Study design: Cohort study nested within a randomi... Read More about Keeping active: maintenance of physical activity after exercise programs for older adults.

Poisoning substances taken by young people: a population-based cohort study (2018)
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Tyrrell, E. G., Kendrick, D., Sayal, K., & Orton, E. (2018). Poisoning substances taken by young people: a population-based cohort study. British Journal of General Practice, 68(675), e703-e710. https://doi.org/10.3399/bjgp18X698897

Background: Globally, poisonings account for most medically-attended self-harm. Recent data on poisoning substances are lacking, but needed to inform self-harm prevention. Aim: To assess poisoning substance patterns and trends among 10-24 year olds... Read More about Poisoning substances taken by young people: a population-based cohort study.

PHysical activity Implementation Study In Community-dwelling AduLts (PHISICAL): study protocol (2018)
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Carpenter, H., Audsley, S., Coupland, C., Gladman, J. R., Kendrick, D., Lafond, N., …Orton, E. (in press). PHysical activity Implementation Study In Community-dwelling AduLts (PHISICAL): study protocol. Injury Prevention, https://doi.org/10.1136/injuryprev-2017-042627

Background: Falls in older people are a leading causes of unintentional injury. Due to an ageing population, injuries are likely to increase unless more is done to reduce older people’s falls risk. In clinical trials, the Falls Management Exercise (F... Read More about PHysical activity Implementation Study In Community-dwelling AduLts (PHISICAL): study protocol.

Alcohol Misuse and Injury Outcomes in Young People Aged 10–24 (2017)
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Lester, L., Baker, R., Coupland, C., & Orton, E. (2018). Alcohol Misuse and Injury Outcomes in Young People Aged 10–24. Journal of Adolescent Health, 62(4), 450-456. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jadohealth.2017.10.003

Purpose: The burden of alcohol-attributable disease is a global problem. Young people often present to emergency health-care services with alcohol intoxication but little is known about how best to intervene at that point to improve future health out... Read More about Alcohol Misuse and Injury Outcomes in Young People Aged 10–24.

Effect of oral prednisolone on symptom duration and severity in nonasthmatic adults with acute lower respiratory tract infection: a randomized clinical trial (2017)
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Hay, A. D., Little, P., Harnden, A., Thompson, M., Wang, K., Kendrick, D., …Moore, M. (2017). Effect of oral prednisolone on symptom duration and severity in nonasthmatic adults with acute lower respiratory tract infection: a randomized clinical trial. Journal of the American Medical Association, 318(8), 721-730. https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2017.10572

© 2017 American Medical Association. All rights reserved. IMPORTANCE: Acute lower respiratory tract infection is common and often treated inappropriately in primary care with antibiotics. Corticosteroids are increasingly used but without sufficient e... Read More about Effect of oral prednisolone on symptom duration and severity in nonasthmatic adults with acute lower respiratory tract infection: a randomized clinical trial.

Venous thromboembolism in adults screened for Sickle Cell Trait: a population based cohort study with nested case-control analysis (2017)
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Little, I., Vinogradova, Y., Orton, E., Kai, J., & Qureshi, N. (2017). Venous thromboembolism in adults screened for Sickle Cell Trait: a population based cohort study with nested case-control analysis. BMJ Open, 7(3), Article e012665. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2016-012665

Objective: To determine whether sickle cell carriers (‘sickle cell trait’) have an increased risk of venous thromboembolism (VTE). Design: Cohort study with nested case-control analysis. Setting: General population with data from 609 UK gener... Read More about Venous thromboembolism in adults screened for Sickle Cell Trait: a population based cohort study with nested case-control analysis.

Association between maternal depression and anxiety episodes and rates of childhood injuries: a cohort study from England (2017)
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Baker, R., Kendrick, D., Tata, L. J., & Orton, E. (2017). Association between maternal depression and anxiety episodes and rates of childhood injuries: a cohort study from England. Injury Prevention, 23(6), 396-402. https://doi.org/10.1136/injuryprev-2016-042294

Background: Maternal depression is common and associated with several child health outcomes. The impact on childhood injuries is underexplored, with existing studies relying on maternal reporting of injury occurrences. Using population healthcare dat... Read More about Association between maternal depression and anxiety episodes and rates of childhood injuries: a cohort study from England.

School-based education programmes for the prevention of unintentional injuries in children and young people. (2016)
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Orton, E., Whitehead, J., Mhizha-Murira, J. R., Clarkson, M., Watson, M. C., Mulvaney, C. A., …Bhuchar, M. (2016). School-based education programmes for the prevention of unintentional injuries in children and young people. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 12(CD0102), https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD010246.pub2

Background: Unintentional injuries are the leading cause of death in children aged four to 18 years and are a major cause of ill health. The school setting offers the opportunity to deliver preventive interventions to a large number of children and h... Read More about School-based education programmes for the prevention of unintentional injuries in children and young people..

Differing patterns in intentional and unintentional poisonings among young people in England, 1998-2014: a population based cohort study (2016)
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Tyrrell, E. G., Orton, E., Sayal, K., Baker, R., & Kendrick, D. (2017). Differing patterns in intentional and unintentional poisonings among young people in England, 1998-2014: a population based cohort study. Journal of Public Health, 39(2), Article e1-e9. https://doi.org/10.1093/pubmed/fdw075

Background Accurate and up to date data on changes in poisoning incidence among young people are lacking. Recent linkage of UK primary care, hospital and mortality data allows these to be quantified to inform service delivery. Methods An open coh... Read More about Differing patterns in intentional and unintentional poisonings among young people in England, 1998-2014: a population based cohort study.

Differing patterns in thermal injury incidence and hospitalisations among 0–4 year old children from England (2016)
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Baker, R., Tata, L. J., Kendrick, D., Burch, T., Kennedy, M., & Orton, E. (2016). Differing patterns in thermal injury incidence and hospitalisations among 0–4 year old children from England. Burns, 42(7), 1609-1616. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.burns.2016.05.007

Objective: To describe patterns in thermal injury incidence and hospitalisations by age, sex, calendar year and socioeconomic status among 0-4 year olds in England for the period 1998-2013. Participants: 708,050 children with linked primary care a... Read More about Differing patterns in thermal injury incidence and hospitalisations among 0–4 year old children from England.

Epidemiology of poisonings, fractures and burns among 0–24 year olds in England using linked health and mortality data (2016)
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Baker, R., Orton, E., Tata, L. J., & Kendrick, D. (2016). Epidemiology of poisonings, fractures and burns among 0–24 year olds in England using linked health and mortality data. European Journal of Public Health, 26(6), 940-946. https://doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckw064

Background: Understanding patterns of injury in England is challenging due to a lack of national injury surveillance data. Through recent linkage of a large primary care research database to hospitalization and mortality data, we describe the epide... Read More about Epidemiology of poisonings, fractures and burns among 0–24 year olds in England using linked health and mortality data.

Changes in poisonings among adolescents in the UK between 1992 and 2012: a population based cohort study (2016)
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Tyrrell, E. G., Orton, E., & Tata, L. J. (2016). Changes in poisonings among adolescents in the UK between 1992 and 2012: a population based cohort study. Injury Prevention, 22(6), 400-406. https://doi.org/10.1136/injuryprev-2015-041901

Background: Poisonings are a common cause of morbidity and mortality among adolescents. Yet surveillance data indicating current incidence rates (IRs) and time trends are lacking, making policy development and service planning difficult. We utilised... Read More about Changes in poisonings among adolescents in the UK between 1992 and 2012: a population based cohort study.

Alcohol-attributable healthcare attendances up to 10 years prior to diagnosis of alcoholic cirrhosis: a population based case-control study (2015)
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Otete, H. E., Orton, E., Fleming, K. M., & West, J. (2016). Alcohol-attributable healthcare attendances up to 10 years prior to diagnosis of alcoholic cirrhosis: a population based case-control study. Liver International, 36(4), 538-546. https://doi.org/10.1111/liv.13002

BACKGROUND & AIMS: Cirrhosis because of alcohol could be avoided if drinking behaviour could be altered earlier in the disease course. Our aim was to quantify the burden of morbidities in patients prior to alcoholic cirrhosis diagnosis, as this may... Read More about Alcohol-attributable healthcare attendances up to 10 years prior to diagnosis of alcoholic cirrhosis: a population based case-control study.

Sex and age differences in the early identification and treatment of alcohol use: a population-based study of patients with alcoholic cirrhosis (2015)
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Otete, H. E., Orton, E., West, J., & Fleming, K. M. (2015). Sex and age differences in the early identification and treatment of alcohol use: a population-based study of patients with alcoholic cirrhosis. Addiction, 110(12), https://doi.org/10.1111/add.13081

Aim: To estimate sex differences in health-care utilization among harmful/hazardous drinkers in the period before alcoholic cirrhosis diagnosis, and estimate sex differences in the extent to which alcohol use and brief alcohol interventions were docu... Read More about Sex and age differences in the early identification and treatment of alcohol use: a population-based study of patients with alcoholic cirrhosis.

Identification of incident poisoning, fracture and burn events using linked primary care, secondary care, and mortality data from England: implications for research and surveillance (2015)
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Baker, R., Tata, L. J., Kendrick, D., & Orton, E. (2015). Identification of incident poisoning, fracture and burn events using linked primary care, secondary care, and mortality data from England: implications for research and surveillance. Injury Prevention, https://doi.org/10.1136/injuryprev-2015-041561

Background: English national injury data collection systems are restricted to hospitalisations and deaths. With recent linkage of a large primary care database, the Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD), with secondary care and mortality data we... Read More about Identification of incident poisoning, fracture and burn events using linked primary care, secondary care, and mortality data from England: implications for research and surveillance.

Risk factors for long-bone fractures in children up to 5 years of age: a nested case–control study (2015)
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Baker, R., Orton, E., Tata, L. J., & Kendrick, D. (2015). Risk factors for long-bone fractures in children up to 5 years of age: a nested case–control study. Archives of Disease in Childhood, 100(5), https://doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2013-305715

Aim: To investigate risk factors for first long-bone fractures in children up to 5 years old in order to provide evidence about which families could benefit from injury prevention interventions. Methods: Population-based matched nested case–control... Read More about Risk factors for long-bone fractures in children up to 5 years of age: a nested case–control study.

Can oral corticosteroids reduce the severity or duration of an acute cough, and the associated National Health Service and societal costs, in adults presenting to primary care?: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial (2015)
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Downing, H. E., Carroll, F., Brookes, S. T., Hollinghurst, S., Timmins, D., Orton, E., …Hay, A. D. (2015). Can oral corticosteroids reduce the severity or duration of an acute cough, and the associated National Health Service and societal costs, in adults presenting to primary care?: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial. Trials, 16(1), Article 78. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-015-0569-5

Background: Acute lower respiratory tract infection (LRTI) is one of the most common conditions managed internationally and is costly to health services and patients. Despite good evidence that antibiotics are not effective for improving the symptom... Read More about Can oral corticosteroids reduce the severity or duration of an acute cough, and the associated National Health Service and societal costs, in adults presenting to primary care?: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial.

Persistence of health inequalities in childhood injury in the UK: a population-based cohort study of children under 5 (2014)
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Orton, E., Kendrick, D., West, J., & Tata, L. J. (2014). Persistence of health inequalities in childhood injury in the UK: a population-based cohort study of children under 5. PLoS ONE, 9(10), Article e111631. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0111631

BACKGROUND: Injury is a significant cause of childhood death and can result in substantial long-term disability. Injuries are more common in children from socio-economically deprived families, contributing to health inequalities between the most and... Read More about Persistence of health inequalities in childhood injury in the UK: a population-based cohort study of children under 5.

Risk factors for scald injury in children under 5 years of age: a case–control study using routinely collected data (2013)
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Shah, M., Orton, E., Tata, L., Gomes, C., & Kendrick, D. (2013). Risk factors for scald injury in children under 5 years of age: a case–control study using routinely collected data. Burns, 39(7), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.burns.2013.03.022

Scald injury is common, accounting for half of all burns in pre-school children. Most scalds are preventable and health professionals can play an important role in targeting interventions to those at greatest risk. However, the potential for routinel... Read More about Risk factors for scald injury in children under 5 years of age: a case–control study using routinely collected data.